Marika's Shelter in Place Reading List

It usually takes me six months to get through a book - I find it hard to find the sustained kind of focus it takes between the techs and the flights and so on. Also I'm a slow reader.

When it first clicked with me how much time we'd be spending at home, I assumed I'd be watching a lot of TV. But I'm finding I don't really want to - more compelled to tune in to something, as opposed to tuning out. Or spacing out. And books are a great antidote to all the screen time.

Here's what I've been up to.

SOLO READING

Complete: The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich

Currently: The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

On Deck: either World Light by Halldor Laxness which I got halfway through but never finished, or Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Kimmerer

READING WITH ITAMAR

Complete: The Winds Twelve Quarters, Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin

Currently: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel, Susanna Clarke

WITH MY SHORT STORY BOOK CLUB

Currently: "Noble Things," from Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay

On Deck: "Cold" by A. S. Byatt

ALSO the Reconstruction team just proposed reading Counternarratives by John Keene. Probably gonna jump on that train.